AFC Wimbledon are at a point where there is a lot of debate about whether fan ownership, or at least how fan ownership is being run, is the way forward. It worked to get the team from the bottom of non-league back into the league in 9 years. But is it sustainable at the professional level.

Transfer fees (and compensation fees) in the summer were well in excess of 1 million pounds, but there are struggles on and off the pitch. No MD or Head of Football have yet been appointed despite the CEO resigning in February. The interim chair who is effectively covering all three of those roles is part time. The team have lost four matches in a row. That only happened once last year and the manager was sacked after the fifth. The next match is away to arguably the best team in the division (Bradford). The booing at the end of the last match was worse than anything last season.

Not sure any of this makes much difference to the arrangement with the Broncos; complaints about the pitch can't start until February/March by the football side at least! A more competitive London team will hopefully help attendance, but to get anything sizeable needs work on the general match day experience.

Would remind you Bongser we offered full time contracts up until this season & still no northerners show Rob Purdham's commitment to London or anything like it.

There are quite a few northerners playing p/t non league football & Union in & around South East so my point still stands.

I imagine Purdham was on a much better contract than anything we've offered in recent years.

No doubt you are right Buzz & while that no doubt plays a large part, players still have to have the strength of character to step out of their comfort zone. That's where they seem to be lacking, unlike Aussies & Kiwis that travelling & working is almost a Rite of Passage.

How many players have we signed that didn't fulfill their contracts for all sorts of reasons over the last 10 years or infact signed & left before wearing the shirt in battle?

As someone who came down to London in my teens and have stayed since I don't really see what these players problem is. However, it's happened enough times that you could wonder whether the club doesn't always deliver on their side of the bargain.

I grew up in Dublin in the late 70's with an English accent........some of these so called "hard" Rugby League players are nowt more than entitled wimps!